Thought about a Qt port

[Thiago Macieira]

On sábado, 30 de março de 2013 22.03.54, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> > Moreover, it does not affect Subsurface. Whichever exception ABI is
> > chosen, it will work with Qt and the Windows installation will bring in
> > all the necessary libraries anyway.
> > 
> > PS: I think the Fedora cross-mingw build uses SJLJ → performance problems.
> 
> out of curiosity - are you shooting for a Mingw with SEH (if that even
> works yet in 4.8 with the TIBs and the handler linked lists and such)
> or DW2 to be distributed with the next (perhaps 5.1 minor) release?
> though, if DW2 is chosen i remember there were some issues with that
> and how the WINAPI works, but i could be wrong.

Anything as long as it's not SJLJ. I think it's stupid to try and throw 
exceptions through the Windows kernel C API, so that functionality is not 
required for Qt. Therefore, DW2 is a good solution for us. I'm told SEH will 
with with GCC 4.8, though.

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